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We the People?
The United States and the Question of Rights
Herausgeber: Brittner, Irina | Meyer, Sabine N. | Schneck, Peter
American Studies – A Monograph Series, Bd. 309
2020
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Abstract
The foundational vision of the U.S. polity as a “political edifice of liberty and equal rights” (Abraham Lincoln) has held immense symbolic power and bred both aspirations and discontent. It has served as the source for various interconnected, yet often also conflicting, narratives and discourses through which the question of human and civil rights in the U.S. has been constantly debated and re-negotiated. This volume investigates the U.S.-American culture of rights as it has evolved and continues to evolve throughout U.S. (legal) history as well as in U.S. literature and in popular culture. It demonstrates that the question of rights has been posed differently by members of the various groups and cultures that have historically constituted the United States, and that the answers to these questions changed significantly over time.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
| Zwischenüberschrift | Seite | Aktion | Preis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cover | Cover | ||
| Titel | III | ||
| Imprint | IV | ||
| Contents | V | ||
| IRINA BRITTNER, SABINE N. MEYER, AND PETER SCHNECK: Introduction | VII | ||
| The Social and Historical Reality of Rights in the U.S. | 3 | ||
| LETI VOLPP: Refugees Welcome? | 3 | ||
| BLAIR L.M. KELLEY: Unabated Protest: American Citizenship and African American Resistance to Jim Crow Segregation | 43 | ||
| SUSAN N. HERMAN: On Balancing Liberty and National Security | 63 | ||
| MICHAEL DREYER: Civil Rights from the Bench? The U.S. Supreme Court between Originalism and the Living Constitution | 83 | ||
| CURD BENJAMIN KNÜPFER: Technological Innovation and Bottom-Up Democracy: Acknowledging the Crises and Re-Affirming the Research Agenda | 105 | ||
| Literature and the Question of Rights | 123 | ||
| CHAD LUCK: Debt Reckoning: Equity, Property, Bartleby | 123 | ||
| KATRIN HORN: Right or Obligation? Privacy in Henry James’ ‚The Bostonians‘ | 137 | ||
| JULIUS GREVE: Ventriloquism Against the Copyright of the Concept: Authorial Suspension and Modernist Perfomativity | 157 | ||
| SEBASTIAN M. HERRMANN: Law as Algorithm: Legal Discourse, the Data Imaginary and the 1839 ‚American Slavery as It Is‘ | 175 | ||
| INA BATZKE: Contesting Traditional Imaginaries of Citizenship: José Ángel N.’s ‚Illegal: Reflections of an Undocumented Immigrant‘ | 195 | ||
| KERSTIN KNOPF: The Gendered Prison: Female Bodies and the Carceral Space in American Women’s Prison Literature | 211 | ||
| Negotiating Rights in Popular Culture | 233 | ||
| KATJA KANZLER: Female Lawyer Figures in Contemporary TV Legal Drama: Embodiment and Gender in Figurations of the Legal Process | 233 | ||
| JOSEF RAAB: The Disenfranchised Latin@ Alien in ‚The X-Files‘ and Beyond | 249 | ||
| INGRID GESSNER: Picturing Ebola: Photography as an Instrument of Biopolitical (In)Justice | 273 | ||
| MIRJA BEUTEL: ‚The Sopranos‘ and Minority Rights: A Cosmopolitan Approach for the EFL Classroom | 291 | ||
| Contributors | 309 | ||
| Backcover | Backcover |
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